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Melanoleuca Russula (Scop.) Murrill 
Tricholoma Russula Gill. 
Reddish Melanoleuca 
Plate 163. Figure 2. X i 
Pileus fleshy, convex, becoming plane or centrally depressed, 
obtuse, solitary or subcespitose, 7.5-12.5 cm. broad; surface vis- 
cid when moist, smooth or dotted with granular squamules on the 
disk, pale-pink or rose-red suflfused at times with yellowish stains, 
margin usually paler, involute and minutely downy in the young 
plant ; context white, sometimes tinged with red, the taste mild ; 
lamellae subdistant, rounded behind or subdecurrent, white, often 
becoming red-spotted with age ; spores ellipsoid, 6-7.5 X 4 ; stipe 
solid, firm, dry, white, often reddish below, squamulose at the 
apex, 3-7 cm. long, 1.5-2. 5 cm. thick. 
This attractive plant, which resembles species of Russula but is 
firmer because the context is not vesiculose, is frequently found 
on the ground under oaks or in mixed woods in the northeastern 
United States. The specimen figured was collected near Bronx 
Park on August 6, 1911. I have seen other specimens with much 
redder surface. Peck includes the species in his list of edible 
mushrooms. 
Gymnopilus farinaceus sp. nov. 
Mealy Gymnopilus 
Plate 163. Figure 3. X i 
Pileus convex to plane and at length upturned, solitary, 5 cm. 
broad ; surface smooth, glabrous, somewhat hygrophanous, isabel- 
line or pale-fulvous, fulvous on the disk; context white, thin, the 
taste decidedly sweet and farinaceous, the odor not characteristic ; 
lamellae adnate to adnexed, rounded behind, very broad, sub- 
triangular, purplish-brown, rather crowded ; spores ellipsoid, 
smooth, ferruginous-melleous, 4-5 X 3-4At; stipe cylindric, equal, 
e.xcept at the expanded base, smooth, dry, glabrous, straw-colored, 
hollow, about 5 cm. long and 8 mm. thick. 
- Type collected on the ground in deciduous woods east of the 
New York Botanical Garden, September 10, 1911, by W. A. Mur- 
rill. The species seems near Gymnopilus spumosus. The pur- 
